Afandi English
This song is from ...
50-50!
💡 The style wasn’t so obvious but the language should have told you. Armenia was the right answer. Armenian language is nothing like other languages, only vaguely related to Georgian. To be from Romania it should have some Latin-origin words similar to French and possibly even English. If the song was from Iran you would have understood a lot of shared vocabulary. The language of Slovenia on the other hand is related to Russian.
💡 The style wasn’t so obvious but the language should have told you. Armenia was the right answer. Armenian language is nothing like other languages, only vaguely related to Georgian. To be from Romania it should have some Latin-origin words similar to French and possibly even English. If the song was from Iran you would have understood a lot of shared vocabulary. The language of Slovenia on the other hand is related to Russian.
#12 A Good Laugh: Bollywood
▶️ India’s “Bollywood” is not only the world’s largest movie industry by output, the name is also an interesting linguistic phenomenon called “portemanteau” – the combination of two words in one. Which two words? Bombay + Hollywood = Bollywood.
Enjoy some truly epic (=impressive and historical) moments of Bollywood.
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh
▶️ India’s “Bollywood” is not only the world’s largest movie industry by output, the name is also an interesting linguistic phenomenon called “portemanteau” – the combination of two words in one. Which two words? Bombay + Hollywood = Bollywood.
Enjoy some truly epic (=impressive and historical) moments of Bollywood.
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh
#78 Travelogue UK: Metropolis with a heart
Big cities are bad enough for humans, but for animals they’re much worse, aside from rats and cockroaches perhaps. While London hasn’t quite been animals’ paradise, the city does pride itself for an inclusive history in which animals must have their rightful place:
Memorial Trough
“Be kind and merciful to all animals” – reads the inscription on a historic trough for horses. In previous centuries horses often suffered dehydration and diseases from drinking unclean water. So a certain kind and merciful David Benjamin is honoured for providing troughs with clean water.
War Memorial
“Animals in War: This monument is dedicated to all the animals that served and died alongside British and Allied Forces in wars and campaigns throughout time. They had no choice.” – now this is a bit controversial or not? There are countless human victims of the British and Allied Forces, but the only nation to apologise is Germany.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uk
Big cities are bad enough for humans, but for animals they’re much worse, aside from rats and cockroaches perhaps. While London hasn’t quite been animals’ paradise, the city does pride itself for an inclusive history in which animals must have their rightful place:
Memorial Trough
“Be kind and merciful to all animals” – reads the inscription on a historic trough for horses. In previous centuries horses often suffered dehydration and diseases from drinking unclean water. So a certain kind and merciful David Benjamin is honoured for providing troughs with clean water.
War Memorial
“Animals in War: This monument is dedicated to all the animals that served and died alongside British and Allied Forces in wars and campaigns throughout time. They had no choice.” – now this is a bit controversial or not? There are countless human victims of the British and Allied Forces, but the only nation to apologise is Germany.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uk
Afandi English
#78 Travelogue UK: Metropolis with a heart Big cities are bad enough for humans, but for animals they’re much worse, aside from rats and cockroaches perhaps. While London hasn’t quite been animals’ paradise, the city does pride itself for an inclusive history…
---Vocab---
📍metropolis = very big city📍aside from = except, apart from 📍pride oneself for sth = be proud of sth you achieved 📍inclusive = not only one kind, diverse 📍sb has a rightful place = sb has a right to be somewhere 📍trough = long container with food and water for animals 📍merciful = nice, helpful 📍inscription = written words on sth 📍dehydration = lack of water 📍dedicated to sth = in the name of sb you respect 📍alongside = together with 📍Allied Forces = countries that were fighting wars together with Britain 📍campaign = armed conflict smaller than a war 📍throughout = all the time 📍controversial = sth that people cannot agree on 📍countless = very many
📍metropolis = very big city📍aside from = except, apart from 📍pride oneself for sth = be proud of sth you achieved 📍inclusive = not only one kind, diverse 📍sb has a rightful place = sb has a right to be somewhere 📍trough = long container with food and water for animals 📍merciful = nice, helpful 📍inscription = written words on sth 📍dehydration = lack of water 📍dedicated to sth = in the name of sb you respect 📍alongside = together with 📍Allied Forces = countries that were fighting wars together with Britain 📍campaign = armed conflict smaller than a war 📍throughout = all the time 📍controversial = sth that people cannot agree on 📍countless = very many
Should animals be honoured in a war memorial?
Anonymous Poll
63%
Absolutely. Not only humans lost their lives.
24%
Why not, but only if we honour human victims too.
10%
Not sure, we can’t acknowledge everyone.
3%
No, honouring animals in any way is wrong.
#98 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi immersed in silver berry fragrance
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes. Not sure what Afandi looks like? Check the pinned message above!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes. Not sure what Afandi looks like? Check the pinned message above!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
Congrats to Zebiniso!!! 🥳🥳🥳
And well done, designers! Special thanks to Abdulahatty, Boburshox and Muhammadayyubxon! 👏👏👏
And well done, designers! Special thanks to Abdulahatty, Boburshox and Muhammadayyubxon! 👏👏👏
❗️Dear students,
🔹Tomorrow (Monday) we will have a Speaking Club plus Project Hub at Yoshlar Markazi:
2-3pm Speaking Club
3-4pm Project Hub
🔹Participation is FREE.
🔹Hosting you will be Mr Hoffmann, foreign teacher from Germany at Inyaz.
🔹The place is 2nd floor of Yoshlar Markazi in Eski Shahar (former Cholpon Kinoteatr).
🔹More information? @jochenho
🔹Tomorrow (Monday) we will have a Speaking Club plus Project Hub at Yoshlar Markazi:
2-3pm Speaking Club
3-4pm Project Hub
🔹Participation is FREE.
🔹Hosting you will be Mr Hoffmann, foreign teacher from Germany at Inyaz.
🔹The place is 2nd floor of Yoshlar Markazi in Eski Shahar (former Cholpon Kinoteatr).
🔹More information? @jochenho
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#18 Know Your World: What people die from in different countries
▶️ The world is big and diverse and people die all kinds of unnatural deaths. Check out what they are. Quite interesting actually!
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
▶️ The world is big and diverse and people die all kinds of unnatural deaths. Check out what they are. Quite interesting actually!
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
#84 Afandi Quiz: Which country?
▶️ Here are mysterious pictures from a mysterious country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz
▶️ Here are mysterious pictures from a mysterious country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz
Afandi English
This picture was taken in ...
Well done!
👍 🇨🇳China was the correct answer. The architecture was misleading (=leading you into the wrong direction) but you can actually spot a few Chinese characters (=Chinese written words), some lanterns (=red round lamps) on the street lights, and you could even argue that the pollution is Chinese. The location is Urumchi, the capital of the Uyghur so-called Autonomous Region called Xinjiang. The tower is a replica (=copied artwork or architecture), the original of which is located in Bukhara.
👍 🇨🇳China was the correct answer. The architecture was misleading (=leading you into the wrong direction) but you can actually spot a few Chinese characters (=Chinese written words), some lanterns (=red round lamps) on the street lights, and you could even argue that the pollution is Chinese. The location is Urumchi, the capital of the Uyghur so-called Autonomous Region called Xinjiang. The tower is a replica (=copied artwork or architecture), the original of which is located in Bukhara.
#122 Our favourite mistakes: Handwriting
▶️ What’s strange here?
Miкe tooк the кnife to кill the monкey.
❓ What’s wrong?
❗️ The small k’s are taken from the Cyrillic alphabet. Latin alphabet k’s have a long neck. Some students use the wrong shape in handwriting, i.e. writing the small Latin k without the long neck that it should have.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
▶️ What’s strange here?
❗️ The small k’s are taken from the Cyrillic alphabet. Latin alphabet k’s have a long neck. Some students use the wrong shape in handwriting, i.e. writing the small Latin k without the long neck that it should have.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
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#11 Must Watch: Happiness
▶️ Modern society is sometimes described as a “rat race”. This animated film criticising consumerism (=belief that it’s good to buy lots of things) makes it perfectly clear what that means.
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch
▶️ Modern society is sometimes described as a “rat race”. This animated film criticising consumerism (=belief that it’s good to buy lots of things) makes it perfectly clear what that means.
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch